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basket we hope you enjoyed the podcast have a great day humorous in many many workshops of this

type he's brought hundreds of people through the big book uh i have heard him many many times on a

lot of cds tonight was the first time I actually

met him. It's quite an honor to have him here tonight and that he was able to, you know,

to be here and share his time with us here in Montclair. And with no further ado, I'd like to

introduce Chris.

Thank you. and with no further ado, I'd like to introduce Chris. Good evening, everybody. My name is Chris, and I am an alcoholic.

This is kind of a new town for me so i'll give my a vital statistics

uh... on around december twenty eighth nineteen eighty nine the grace of god

separated me from alcohol

oh the willing a willing a willingness born a desperation uh... pushed me into

alcoholics anonymous and uh... i started to do the things that i thought i needed

to do to survive.

And that's helped to maintain my spiritual condition over the years and I haven't had a drink

since that crazy night back in December of 89.

I'm very grateful for that.

I've always had a home group since day one.

Since day two, I've always had a home group since day one. Since day two, I've always had a sponsor,

uninterrupted, and I pay a lot of attention to how much time in my life goes to, goes to A.A. and goes to the spiritual life and helping others, because I know it's in direct proportion to any serenity or

any survival I might have the amount of attention I pay to AA stuff. The topic tonight is a little

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